The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-07-07
WASHINGTON WRIT.

WASHINGTON WRIT.
Gossip from the National Capital.
Special Correspondence of The Sentinel.
WASHINGTON, July 4th. 1851
1t is not positively known, but the
prevailing opinion is that the Presi-
dent will call the newly elected 5Oth
Congress in extra session about Oc-
tober 1st, to deal with that momen-
tous question, the already immense
and rapidly accumulating treasury
surplus. A number of leading Dem
ocrats are now here discussing the.
advisability of such a proceeding.
The currency of the country is being
locked up in the treasury vaults
here at the rate of S1O,OO0,00O per
month and unless remedial legisla-
ton is effected, and effected soon,
there is bound to be financial panic.
Should one come, the administration
would be held responsible and it
would materially damage our pros
poets next year. / think an extra
session will be called.
One of "the great Metropolitan
dailies," the Washington National
Republican, on the morning of the
anniversary of the occasion of Queen
Victoria to the throne of England
June 2I, in an editorial leader"
used these words, in recounting the
march of civilization and progress
during herreign: " "The first steamer
crossed the Atlantic ocean the first
year of Victoria's reign, and the
first railroad was built in England" ;"
Well, now; when it is just as
handy, it is just as well to be correct
about these little matters. The first
steamer did not cross the Atlantic
during Victoria reign, but II years
previously. The steamship Savan-
nah, built in Savannah, and COM
manded by an American skipper,
crossed the Atlantic in 1919, and
before Victoria assembled the throne
arrangements had been perfected for
establishing regular lines of steamers
between New York and Liverpool
The first railroad was not built in
England during Victoria's reign.
She became queen, June 81, 1887
The Liverpool and Manchester rail
way was in successful operation as
early as 1880; and locomotive en-
CINE, built by the late Peter Cooper,
carried passengers from Baltimore
to Ellicott's mills, near Washington,
at the rate of eighteen miles an hour,
the same year; a daily train was
running between Albany and Sche-
nectady, N. Y, in 1881, and in '32
locomotives ran over that road at
the rate of thirty miles an hour !;
and long before Victoria became
queen regular passenger trains were
running between this city and Balt-
more.
The editor of the Republican had
better study history little. 1t is all
right to sing praises where praises
are due-a rendering unto Caesar
is all very well and proper, but at
the same time some regard for the
truths of history should be shown.
The impression still prevails here
that Secrtary Lamar will go on the
U. s. Supreme Court bench, and
during the past week several papers
published the statement that Sena-
tor Ransom might succeed him as
Secretary of the interior. Sen. Ran
som sayshe knows absolutely moth
ing about such contingency, and
that the subject has never been mem
toned to him by the President nor
by any member of his administra-
ton. There is probably no truth in
the report.
Il is now thought that Senator
Calquitt will be appointed to Secre-
tary Lamar's place in the cabinet.
Wl.a are to be the gubernatorial
c.tarii,ales in North Carolina next
yea is a question which no one
..;..S.rs to -besable to satisfactorily
~, yer. Prominent Tarheel visitors
i Washington have suggested the
,...lnes of Minister Jarvis, Lieut..
Governor Steadman, Gen. w. r
Cox, Judge Walter Clark, Colonels
Oct. Coke and Thos. M. Holt, and
others, on the Democratic side, ane
Mr.. Richmond Pearson is frequently
named as the possible Republican O.
anti Democratic. IMPRfMATUR.